Generational Ignorance a venting

What’s derogatory about being called retired?

 

How’s the union treating you for quality help?

 

Union...quality.
Good one.

 

Non-union company thank gawd.

But we still wont get rid of people. We need bodies that bad.

 

Wow… I’m surprised they give Gov contracts to non union companies… iirc you pour concrete roads…

crazy you can’t get competent help for that kind of money… if I could got that as a kid I might have actually got a job…

Entry level engineering jobs only paid $30k when I was in college… I chose to open a used motorsports dealership instead and build crashed bikes into race and street bikes so I could race…

worked out alright

 

Something shifted in the US after COVID. Mediocrity and laziness not only became accepted, it's the new standard. Nobody does a damn thing anymore and it's almost like communism in a way- if one guy hustles, the other guys tell him to knock it off so they don't look bad. It's like cancer to an organization.

At the airline, they are trying to knock 5 min off the time it takes to turn aircraft. The company is investing many millions to get this done- electronic signs at every gate to tell the ground guys how much time they have left, automated announcements, etc. We never used to need any of that shit.

My wife is an ER nurse, her boss told her "you can't expect people to work to your standards." What? I mean lives are at stake, literally.

I'm starting to come to the conclusion that there are a few certainties in life:

1. The new generation is no good. This truism has been spoken for untold generations before us.
2. Whatever shift you're working, the other shift doesn't do shit or know shit.
3. If XYZ candidate gets elected, the country is ruined.
4. If you find yourself reading the paper and the only thing you can do is shake your head and tell your partner that everything is going to hell, you should probably take a vacation to another country, and refrain from posting online in any fashion.

 

Our public education has completely failed us. Look up what kids in the 1910s had to learn in even just grade school. Now, we have to have documents written at a 6th grade comprehension level because most of the country is stupid AF. Those "Jay Walking" sections on Jay Leno's show where he goes out and asks easy questions are not the rarities, its the norm.

 

Just stopped by a supply house. Behind the counter they have a big poster soliciting feedback.

The banner at the top of the poster:

VOICE OF THE CUSOMER

Biggest fucking text on the page.

How the fuck did this get from the duhsigner’s desk to the printer to the quality control without that being caught?

 

Yes, one is ignorant if you choose to not vent your generator.

Survival of the fittest.

 

Our company started in 1888 in the city that we are based in. Kinda got a lock on the city and surrounding suburbs, smaller cities, municipalities etc. We bid about $500 mil a year and get about 20-25% of the bids...We'd be screwed if we had a break out season and batted 35% or better.

We don't do interstate highway work as in an entire stretch of miles and miles.....We'll do bridge repair, or DOT repairs on local highways, or state routes that can be 4-5 lanes wide.

We are also a GC (general contractor). We do water/sanitary/storm/inlets/manholes when we rehab streets in certain areas of the city....Which is going in and ripping out old curb and walks, driveway aprons, install new inlets, manholes, pour new curb/walks/aprons and repave the streets....(we have our own asphalt division and concrete mixing plant with about 8 mixers that only deliver to us)

We are currently the GC on 2 rest areas....Tore down the old and building new. The company did the design/build for 2 of them a few years ago, and Ohio is modeling all the rest stops in Ohio after our original design and build. I'm driving 160 mile roundtrip now for the 2 im doing the concrete work on.

We have 4 more rest areas in ohio under contract but we are sub'ing out all the work except for the oversight/project management of them.

There's hardly anything we won't bid....Playgrounds (just did a $3 mil in the past few months), train tunnel, basketball arena (tearout/replace old concrete with new), a lot of college campus work, libraries, zoo work, draining a 35 acre lake and rebuilding it with wetlands and damns and whatever else the dirt dudes are doing, Union terminal in Cincy/Halls of Justice, Art Museum work, alot of work in NKY (newport/covington), damn work on the Ohio with corp of engineers, Suspension bridge work with the corp a few yrs ago, the 'Carousel' in Cincy (google it), Smale park, 'butterfly park in a norther 'burb....The concrete wall/outline of the butterfly is udulating, up and down, slanted/tilted....Helluva craftsmanship feat.

You get the idea.

 

So, what about the lack of punctuation in the thread title?

 

Off / On topic... I tend to almost exclusively use cards simply because of the rewards. I also pay off the whole balance, so I'm not getting any fees or additional costs, just a percent back in cash, miles, and other perks. Cash just doesn't do that. The days of being able to scam the tax man by accepting cash and using cash are rapidly closing in, so there's not much advantage.

 

Depends on the volume of cash and the income desired to be shown to maintain credit and credibility.

 

By using your card(s) for everything, the things you are paying for all become 3 to 4% more expensive. Two major Auto dealerships I deal with locally offer a cash discount for parts and service.
The banks are the only winners when you use your card.

 

Also depending on the card your points, cash back etc. are charged back to the business also.

 

COVID didn't bring that on, it's always been a part of any organization. Your "few certainties" are spot on.

 

F*ck credit cards.

 

Sorry have not read the entire thread. Bought a sandwich at a local place $17.14 (yeah, I know) anyway handed the girl $20 and 25 cents didn't want a lot of change. The quarter threw her for a loop. She blanks staired me till she reaches in the cash drawer and gave me two dollars. I looked at her and said are you sure this is correct she nods her head and says thanks. I said its wrong but didn't ask for the correct change and just left shanking my head.